Michael Powell has finally found an issue that deserves FCC scrutiny: Mammogate! [Link caveat: I post this only in the interest of truth and full disclosure] Where can one find one of those sunburst piercings? Powell and his aides plan to study the tape. Over and over again.
[The NFL is outraged. Outraged. In a broadcast sponsored by not one, but two "ED" drugs. Like this line for Levetra, by that old bum who used to coach the Bears and never seems to go away: "Something that was reliable and improved my erection quality".]
Meanwhile, Michael's dad sure seems to be questioning the rationale for the war.
"In an interview published in the Monday issue of The Washington Post, Mr. Powell said he did not know if he would have recommended invading Iraq based on what is now known about the weapons, saying 'it was the stockpile that presented the final little piece that made it more of a real and present danger and threat to the region and to the world.' Nonetheless, he said he believed the invasion was 'the right thing to do, and I think history will demonstrate that.'"
And from the same story, in another oratorical flash reminiscent of Lincoln, our president said, "I don't know all the facts...What we don't know yet is what we thought and what the Iraqi Survey Group has found, and we want to look at that."
Huh? "What we don't know yet is what we thought..."? That's our George!
What we also don't know yet is what they think they're doing with our future. That left wing wacko, the Journal's Alan Murray sounds uncharacteristically angry [sorry, paid subscription required]:
A quiz: Guess where the following statement is found:
"Long-run budget projections show clearly that the [federal] budget is on an unsustainable path."
a) Sen. John Kerry's campaign manifesto.
b) Barbra Streisand's Web site.
c) President Bush's 2005 budget.
OK, it's a trick question. You'll actually find similar statements in all three of the above. But the precise language comes from page 191 of the Analytical Perspectives of the Bush budget.
Can we get rid of the notion that there is some hot partisan debate going on over whether deficits matter? There is no such debate -- among reasonable people, at least. The Bush budget document puts the issue in crystal-clear terms that most analysts of either party can accept. The $521 billion deficit projected for the current fiscal year isn't an economic problem. And the president's goal of cutting that deficit in half over the next five years -- so it doesn't become a problem as the economy recovers -- is reasonable. Indeed, Mr. Bush borrowed that benchmark from Sen. Kerry, whose campaign adopted it months ago.
...
In January 2001, I sat with my wife and daughters in the rain on the front lawn of the Capitol, and listened to George W. Bush speak these inspiring words:
"America at its best is also courageous. Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defeating common dangers defined our common good. Now we must chose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show courage in a time of blessing, by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations."
Sadly, the president's 2005 budget seems to take the exact opposite approach. It pushes the tough decisions to the next generation.
But don't worry. Be happy (a song popular during George I's reign, I believe). Or maybe we should worry -- so says a guy who killed the only mad cow found in the U.S. So far.
"Contrary to reports from the federal Department of Agriculture, he [Dave Louthan] asserts that the cow he killed was not too sick to walk. And it was caught not by routine surveillance, he says, but by 'a fluke': he killed it outdoors because he feared it would trample other cows lying prostrate in its trailer, and the plant's testing program called for sampling cows killed outside only.
"'Mad cows aren't downers,' he said. 'They're up and they're crazy.' The Agriculture Department disputes his account. Dr. Kenneth Petersen, a food safety official, faxed copies of the Dec. 9 inspector's report saying the cow was 'sternal,' or down on its chest."
*****
I can smell the rosin bag. Now that the bumbler bowl is over, our attention turns to baseball (actually, if you read this regularly you know that it never left).
Thanks to Will Carroll, Tom Verducci looks at the winners and losers of the off-season. The last paragraph is the key...Rumors are that Jason Giambi has lost 25 pounds. Hmm.
And the Futility Infielder breaks down the Yankee payroll.
[The NFL is outraged. Outraged. In a broadcast sponsored by not one, but two "ED" drugs. Like this line for Levetra, by that old bum who used to coach the Bears and never seems to go away: "Something that was reliable and improved my erection quality".]
Meanwhile, Michael's dad sure seems to be questioning the rationale for the war.
"In an interview published in the Monday issue of The Washington Post, Mr. Powell said he did not know if he would have recommended invading Iraq based on what is now known about the weapons, saying 'it was the stockpile that presented the final little piece that made it more of a real and present danger and threat to the region and to the world.' Nonetheless, he said he believed the invasion was 'the right thing to do, and I think history will demonstrate that.'"
And from the same story, in another oratorical flash reminiscent of Lincoln, our president said, "I don't know all the facts...What we don't know yet is what we thought and what the Iraqi Survey Group has found, and we want to look at that."
Huh? "What we don't know yet is what we thought..."? That's our George!
What we also don't know yet is what they think they're doing with our future. That left wing wacko, the Journal's Alan Murray sounds uncharacteristically angry [sorry, paid subscription required]:
A quiz: Guess where the following statement is found:
"Long-run budget projections show clearly that the [federal] budget is on an unsustainable path."
a) Sen. John Kerry's campaign manifesto.
b) Barbra Streisand's Web site.
c) President Bush's 2005 budget.
OK, it's a trick question. You'll actually find similar statements in all three of the above. But the precise language comes from page 191 of the Analytical Perspectives of the Bush budget.
Can we get rid of the notion that there is some hot partisan debate going on over whether deficits matter? There is no such debate -- among reasonable people, at least. The Bush budget document puts the issue in crystal-clear terms that most analysts of either party can accept. The $521 billion deficit projected for the current fiscal year isn't an economic problem. And the president's goal of cutting that deficit in half over the next five years -- so it doesn't become a problem as the economy recovers -- is reasonable. Indeed, Mr. Bush borrowed that benchmark from Sen. Kerry, whose campaign adopted it months ago.
...
In January 2001, I sat with my wife and daughters in the rain on the front lawn of the Capitol, and listened to George W. Bush speak these inspiring words:
"America at its best is also courageous. Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defeating common dangers defined our common good. Now we must chose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show courage in a time of blessing, by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations."
Sadly, the president's 2005 budget seems to take the exact opposite approach. It pushes the tough decisions to the next generation.
But don't worry. Be happy (a song popular during George I's reign, I believe). Or maybe we should worry -- so says a guy who killed the only mad cow found in the U.S. So far.
"Contrary to reports from the federal Department of Agriculture, he [Dave Louthan] asserts that the cow he killed was not too sick to walk. And it was caught not by routine surveillance, he says, but by 'a fluke': he killed it outdoors because he feared it would trample other cows lying prostrate in its trailer, and the plant's testing program called for sampling cows killed outside only.
"'Mad cows aren't downers,' he said. 'They're up and they're crazy.' The Agriculture Department disputes his account. Dr. Kenneth Petersen, a food safety official, faxed copies of the Dec. 9 inspector's report saying the cow was 'sternal,' or down on its chest."
*****
I can smell the rosin bag. Now that the bumbler bowl is over, our attention turns to baseball (actually, if you read this regularly you know that it never left).
Thanks to Will Carroll, Tom Verducci looks at the winners and losers of the off-season. The last paragraph is the key...Rumors are that Jason Giambi has lost 25 pounds. Hmm.
And the Futility Infielder breaks down the Yankee payroll.
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